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You hear seldom from me for want of opportunitys to write to you, and because I have nothing material to acquaint you with. The history of a defensive kind of war, which has been my misfortune for some time past to have been engaged in, is painful for me to relate, and would give you no pleasure to read. In short, the support & protection that I have been under the absolute necessity of...
Date: 5 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
As soon as I heard from Sir Peter Parker & General Clinton of their being unsuccessful in South Carolina, and that instead of joining us at Virginia as I had all along been taught to expect They had sailed for New York, and being myself most heartily tired of carrying on a sort of Piratical War, that tended in no degree to benefit his Majestys service, I consulted with Lord Dunmore, and found...
Date: 24 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
It will, I am sure, give you pleasure to learn that I am not only arrived in America, but that I am also perfectly recovered from a dangerous & obstinate fever, which began the day after we parted at Yarmouth, and did not leave me untill we reached the Western Islands, however the Air & Refreshments of Fyal (which by the bye is a delightful spot for Climate, soil & fine Views)...
Date: 15 November 1775
Volume: Volume 2